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Article | 4/02/2011 SAP to fight Oracle's $1.3 billion jury award

SAP will ask a California court to reduce the $US1.3 billion jury award it was hit with last November in Oracle's TomorrowNow lawsuit against the comp...

Article | 4/02/2011 Cisco backs OpenStack cloud platform

Cisco Systems has thrown its weight behind OpenStack, the open-source cloud infrastructure platform developed jointly by NASA and managed service prov...

Article | 4/02/2011 Yahoo Labs forms group to target advertising

Yahoo Labs has formed a team to improve the targeting and effectiveness of online advertising, the company said Thursday.

Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip

Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumpti...

Article | 25/01/2011 VMware sales up 37 per cent on continued demand

VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 per cent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday.

Article | 25/01/2011 HP CEO to reveal strategy March 14

Hewlett-Packard has invited journalists to an event March 14 where CEO Léo Apotheker is expected to lay out his plans for the company, including antic...

Article | 14/01/2011 Dell services chief to leave company

Dell said Thursday it has replaced the head of its $US8 billion services business, which it built up in late 2009 through its acquisition of Perot Sys...

Article | 8/01/2011 UltraViolet could mean you'll really 'own' that movie

A group of Hollywood studios and technology companies has come up with a system for buying digital movies and TV shows that's supposed to do away with...

Article | 9/01/2011 3DTV makers hope for a better 2011

The "Avatar effect" that was supposed to make 3D TV so popular last year failed to materialize, but manufacturers, ever optimistic, say a wider select...

Article | 7/01/2011 Skype buys Qik mobile video streaming service

Skype has acquired Qik, the mobile-to-mobile video streaming service, as part of an effort to expand its voice and video calling service beyond PCs an...

Article | 6/01/2011 Microsoft to put next Windows OS on Arm chips

Microsoft said Wednesday that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will run on Arm processors, part of an effort to adapt Windows to th...

Article | 6/01/2011 Microsoft to put next version of Windows on ARM chips

Microsoft said Wednesday that the next version of its Windows PC operating system will run on ARM processors as part of an effort to adapt Windows to ...

Article | 18/12/2010 Report: EU may delay Intel's McAfee acquisition

European regulators are looking closely at Intel's planned McAfee acquisition and may hold up the deal with an investigation, according to a report pu...

Article | 16/12/2010 Microsoft knocks Google Instant, tests it anyway

Microsoft's top search executive has tried to play down the significance of Google Instant, which was launched in September with much fanfare, saying ...

Article | 16/12/2010 Microsoft adds Facebook 'likes' to Bing search results

Microsoft on Wednesday showed how Facebook friends will be able to influence Bing users' search results, as part of a wide-ranging update on search th...